Bowstreet Software Inc. has appointed Robert D. Crowley to the post of president and chief executive officer. Crowley comes to Bowstreet from Arbortext where he was president and CEO. Bowstreet’s current CEO and co-founder, Jack Serfass, will assume the role of co-chairman of Bowstreet, along with co-founder Frank Moss. Bowstreet, was founded in January 1998 and last week announced a $20M second round financing. The company’s Web Services Architecture, which combines XML and directory services technology, is technology for dynamic, frictionless B2B e-commerce. While President and CEO at Arbortext, Crowley positioned the company as a leader in Web-based e-content for e-business, tripling the company value in twelve months. Prior to Arbortext, Crowley was vice president of business development at Kenan Systems Corporation, an enterprise customer care, billing and analysis products firm. Prior to Kenan, Crowley was a senior vice president at USCS International. During his 11 years with California-based USCS. He earned his BS in finance from Villanova University. www.bowstreet.com
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The Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) announced the completion of the specification for Common Information Model (CIM) Operations over HTTP v1.0. This specification, which is available on the DMTF Web site at www.dmtf.org/wbem/index.html joins CIM and XML in providing the base of technologies for the DMTF’s WBEM initiative. The CIM Operations over HTTP specification defines a mapping of CIM operations onto HTTP that allows implementations of CIM to interoperate in an open, standardized manner and completes the technologies that support WBEM. With all three of the component pieces of WBEM now in place, CIM, xmlCIM, and CIM Operations over HTTP, vendors can now build WBEM based management solutions. CIM is an object-oriented information model standardized within the DMTF for the purposes of providing a conceptual framework within which any management data may be modeled. Allowing CIM information to be represented in the form of XML brings all of the benefits of XML and its related technologies to distributed management. WBEM is a set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments. It provides the ability for the industry to deliver a well-integrated set of standards-based management tools, leveraging ubiquitous technologies such as CIM, XML and HTTP. www.dmtf.org
Verity, Inc. announced that the new version of its Verity K2 Toolkit (v2.1) is shipping and provides enhanced performance and application development options for online stores and online publishers. The product is designed to turn online browsers into buyers by arming Web-based businesses with more advanced text retrieval precision, scalability and application integration features needed to customize product catalog navigation and search on extremely large volumes of content. Newly added support for Active Server Pages and Java technology is included.The Verity K2 Toolkit is available for the Microsoft NT, IBM AIX, HP/UX, Digital Unix, and Sun Solaris operating systems and uses hardware vendors’ latest SMP architectures. Customers can run the Verity K2 applications using any combination of servers running one or more of these operating systems. Verity also offers a full range of consulting services for Verity K2 projects. Pricing is based on specific application requirements. www.verity.com
Information Mapping, Inc. announced the launch of three seminars aimed at helping organizations optimize information delivery over intranet, extranet, and Internet Web sites. The three seminars, “Designing Information for the Web”, “Writing for the Web”, and “Making Web Content Work”, teach participants to maximize the utility of Web documents by applying techniques for organizing and presenting information. The seminars provide training for organizations that use Web technology to publish large amounts of complex information. Rather than instructing participants in Web programming languages or software, the seminars focus on how to develop and structure compelling site content that takes full advantage of the Web’s capabilities. www.infomap.com.
Interleaf, Inc. announced the appointment of Jaime Ellertson as Chairman of the Board for the Company. In addition to his current responsibilities as President and CEO, Jaime moves into this position to lead Interleaf to its next phase of aggressive growth as the Company continues to strengthen its position as a provider of XML-based content management solutions. www.interleaf.com
Xerox Corp. and INSCI Corp. announced that the two companies have signed a strategic agreement whereby Xerox will incorporate and resell the INSCI suite of COINSERV enterprise digital transaction document archive and Web delivery products. Under terms of the agreement, Xerox will resell INSCI’s products initially within North America, with planned future expansion to other geographies. Xerox has been reselling INSCI products in areas such as Latin America and Asia since 1996. www.xerox.com, www.insci.com
LivePage Corporation today introduced Version 3.0 of LivePage Enterprise, designed to enable the delivery of Enterprise Information Portals which improve customer service and increase productivity by providing effective access to corporate information.New Features and Benefits of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 include: Enhanced XML Support – LivePage Enterprise 3.0 advances support for XML with a new implementation of XSL and improved integration with leading XML editors including ArborText Adept*Editor, Adobe FrameMaker+SGML, Microsoft Office 2000 and Corel WordPerfect Office 2000: Simplified Deployment of Personalized e-Business Solutions With new LDAP support and the LivePage Extensibility SDK, LivePage Enterprise 3.0 can leverage user profile information enabling dynamic content and site personalization based on the end-user; Text Searching in Word and PDF Documents – In addition to advanced XML, SGML and HTML content searching, LivePage Enterprise will allow for the indexing and searching of content stored in native Word and PDF documents. Matching search results are highlighted in the body of the document for enhanced end-user productivity. The beta version of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 is expected to be available within four weeks. General Availability of LivePage Enterprise 3.0 is expected in the fourth quarter of 1999. Pricing and packaging will be announced at that time. www.livepage.com
Kruse, Inc. is now shipping kWise, new document management software designed to address the need for a more affordable and rapidly-implemented solution for today’s increasingly fast-paced businesses. The product enables individuals with average PC skills to rapidly organize and share all their project and product related documents. kWise is a software solution incorporating advanced file viewers for more than 200 document formats including CAD engineering drawings, computer graphics, spreadsheet, text documents and video — combined with document management capabilities not found in existing file viewer software suites. It was developed for Windows 95, 98 and NT 32-bit operating systems and is fully ODBC compliant. At the heart of the product’s interface is Kruse’s kWise NavTree navigational interface, an file tree concept that makes document management available to anyone with average PC skills. This interface was developed as an alternative to the multiple screens and complex protocols needed to locate and view files with traditional document management systems. www.kwise.com
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